Kindest — dearest friend — My poor Virginia still lives, although failing fast and now suffering
much pain. May God grant her life until she sees you and thanks you once again! Her bosom is full to overflowing — like my own
— with a boundless — inexpressible gratitude to you. Lest she may never see you more — she bids me say
that she sends you her sweetest kiss of love and will die blessing you[.] But come — oh come to-morrow! Yes, I will be
calm — everything you so nobly wish to see me. My mother sends you, also, her “warmest love and thanks”[.]
She begs me to ask you, if possible, to make arrangements at home so that you may stay with us tomorrow night. I enclose the order to
the Postmaster.